Moral debate

[jack]

Hmm, there seems to be too much debate today. gerald_duck, robert_jones, filecoreinuse. And even extended argument about grammar and ice-cream with feanelwa and ewx not-respectively[1].

I guess I'm putting something off :)

In other news: I expected everyone to criticise my phases of the moon, but they didn't. I can never predict what will set people off ;)

[1] Would you distinguish "non-respectively" meaning "not necessarily in the order listed" and "not-respectively" meaning "not in the order listed?" Why didn't I just change the order? Because then I couldn't have this amusing footnote :)

Comments

[filecoreinuse.livejournal.com]

I would have to invent new words I think. Probably, off the top of my head, 'arespectively' for 'they are not necessarily ordered' and 'disrespectively' for 'the are definately not ordered'. One might, if one were generous, use 'quasirespectively' or 'perirespectively' in place of 'arespectively' but I think we're straying far from the meaning there.

I certainly wouldn't've immediately noted the difference between 'non-...' and 'non-...' there although 'non-...' feels like it is synonymous with 'not-...'.